The Cold War

1. The Cold War

2. Soviet Control of Eastern Russia • Alliance between US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union unraveled • Soviets occupied most of Eastern Europe • Rise in Communism • Hungary, Poland- Satellite Nations • Stalin ordered purges and relocated whole factories

3. The Iron Curtain • Soviet Union crushed all opposition in the nations of Eastern Europe after 1945 • A new threat • Truman’s “get tough” policy

6. The Strength of Communism • Soviet troops were the most powerful in Europe • Soviets created a buffer zone on its western border

7. Communism’s Promises • Promised to abolish poverty, privilege, and private property • Guaranteed productive work, shelter, education, health care, and a classless society • Forces of progression and oppression • Guerilla forces started up in poverty stricken countries

9. What’s Their Sign?

10. Containment • Truman’s policy of containment • Cold War began, state of war that did not involve actual bloodshed

11. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan • Truman Doctrine • The United States provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey • Marshall Plan • Recovery plan for European nations • American aid in the form of money, supplies and machinery would help end hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.

12. The Berlin Airlift • Germany was divided between the US, GB, and the Soviet Union • The Soviet Union closed of West Germany to Berlin • Massive airlift of supplies; carried food, medicine, clothing, raw materials and coal

14. North Atlantic Treaty Organization • Formation of Alliances, April 1949 (US, GB, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, and Portugal; Greece, Turkey, and West Germany joined later.) • Collective Security • Attack on one is considered an attack on all

15. The East Side • Soviets explode their first atomic bomb in September of 1949 • A new arms race was on!!! • The US and Soviet Union along with Great Britain, France, and China soon all had nuclear capability.